Colorado’s sports betting wager total declined to $313.2 million in June despite receiving a significant boost from hockey wagers, according to new data from the Colorado Department of Revenue. The total handle represents a 13% drop between May and June 2022.
Miss Rodeo America 2022, Hailey Fredrickson, will be attending this year’s Trinidad Round Up Association Labor Day rodeo and parade. Fredrickson is a Colorado native, former Miss Rodeo Colorado and graduate of Colorado State University. Fredrickson, as the official representative of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, will travel 150,000 miles and appear at nearly 100 rodeo performances to educate the public and create awareness about the sport of rodeo. See details in Fine Print at left for detailed lineup of events...
Benjamin Mandile Reporter The Chronicle-News A housing developer incentive program approved by the City of Trinidad this year saw its first applicants receive city council approval for a total of over $1 million in developer subsidies. Trinidad City Council approved nine applications for workforce housing development incentives during a three-hour special session Monday, Aug.
Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is weathering its first sustained downturn since dispensaries began selling recreational weed in 2014. Dispensaries are closing.
Colorado’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.3% last month as the state added 2,200 payroll jobs, according to new state data. Colorado’s unemployment rate in July is also the lowest it’s been since February 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said in a news release Friday.
Chronicle-News A community funding group that focuses on improvements to the Purgatoire River Valley community, has announced its fall grant cycle is now open for funding applications. The Bar NI Ranch Community Service Fund said this month that it has opened the application period for local nonprofits to apply for project funding.
Chronicle-News The Trinidad Police Department responded to or initiated some 311 incidents between Thursday, Aug. 25, and Wednesday, Aug.
Homicides were up by nearly 30% in the United States in 2020, the largest single- year increase on record. The surge in deadly violence capped a decade in which the national murder rate was already trending upward.
State of New Mexico SANTA FE — Thirty-three New Mexico State Parks are open and ready to host visitors this Labor Day Weekend. State Parks offer a wide range of activities — from horseback riding to scuba diving, camping, hiking and fishing.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife LA JUNTA — As a temporary employee at a federal wildlife office in Fort Collins some 40 years ago, Steve Keefer shared in the excitement of the discovery of a colony of black-footed ferrets in Wyoming.